The Regressives Ep. 6 | The Progressive Pull From Public Infrastructure

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🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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A century ago, New York City was the infrastructural envy of the world, boasting a newly built subway system and an expansive network of bridges and tunnels. Today, the city's vital arteries lag behind modern standards as prohibitive costs and red tape hold back innovation and progress. The New York Times' Brian Rosenthal, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, joins Ravi to diagnose the sticker shock and regulatory hurdles standing in the way of infrastructure progress in New York and the U.S. as a whole. Subscribe to The Lost Debate’s YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Sticher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iheart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Follow Lost Debate on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0	The latest word on the 2nd Avenue subway has many up at arms this morning.
0:12.1	The project's so long in the making that its first delay was actually due to the Great Depression.
0:17.7	Governor Cuomo has made clear that he would like us to accelerate work on the Second
0:22.0	Avenue subway and we are actively looking for ways to deliver the project faster.
0:27.7	And that's when I said, no, we're going to make the deadline just to show you that we can
0:32.4	make the deadline and we're going to do it right.
0:35.9	I do think it came as a surprise to many people that there was a change in the funding,
0:40.3	and I think that has to be reconsidered.
0:42.5	Since we're talking about wish lists, it is always about funding and support for the many grand plans.
0:48.4	The Second Avenue subway opens to riders this Sunday.
0:51.3	But there have always been bigger plans for the 2nd Avenue subway.
0:55.0	The government can still do big things because, Craig, if you don't believe it can, then we defeat ourselves.
1:06.0	This is Robbie Gupta and you're listening to The Regressives, a narrative podcast series from Lost Debate that examines progressive policies, ideas, and leaders in practice.
1:15.1	And as a veteran of progressive campaigns, I've long felt that the values that liberals profess are often out of sync with what they do in practice.
1:22.4	So this podcast series is dedicated to shining a light on those discrepancies in the hopes of eliminating
1:27.7	them. And for those of you who come to this feed for the regular Lost Debate show, we're still
1:32.5	going to be back with regularly scheduled programming later this week. But the reason why I'm
1:36.5	dropping this episode is because I have long been a fan of Brian Rosenthal, who's an investigative
1:41.7	reporter at the New York Times and winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. And he joins me to discuss a series of
1:48.7	articles he wrote a few years ago about the high costs and higher hurdles that often undermine
1:54.2	infrastructure projects in New York City and the country as a whole. Simply put, why is it so
1:59.1	damn expensive to build things in the United States? And I'm on
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